Episode 5 - 1961 Tribute

Episode 5 of Box Center is now available for download.

This week's edition is a special tribute to the 1961 drum corps season, featuring clips from:

• Hawthorne Caballeros (American Legion, National Dream senior champions)
• Garfield Cadets (American Legion junior champions)
• Toronto Optimists (Canadian National junior champions)
• Saint Kevin's Emerald Knights (National Dream junior champions)
• Reading Buccaneers (VFW senior champions)
• Chicago Cavaliers (VFW junior champions)

Also featured:  Remembering the 1961 Saint Catherine's Queensmen - Frank Dorritie looks back on his first exposure to the Queensmen.

Special thanks goes out to the following:

• Glenn Weber of Preserve Our Corps Memories
• Fleetwood Sounds
• Frank Dorritie
• Contributers to A History of Drum & Bugle Corps, Volume 1
• Corpsreps.com

Web-based information about the 1961 drum corps season:

• 1961 junior corps repertoires
• 1961 senior corps repertoires
• 1961 photos

If you would like to know more about 1961 as well as the history of our activity in general, check out the following sources:

• Corpsreps.com
• A History of Drum & Bugle Corps
• Billy Cobham's official website - Billy marched in the Saint Catherine's Queensmen drumline in 1961

If you would like to order recordings of the shows you heard, please contact:

• Fleetwood Sounds
  • Website: http://www.fleetwoodsounds.com/
  • Phone: [phone]
• Preserve Our Corps Memories
  • Website: http://preserveourcorpsmemories.com/
  • E-mail: [email protected]

Box Center is a weekly podcast, released each Monday, dedicated to the news and events of the drum and bugle corps activity. Box Center is hosted by Kevin Gamin, Managing Editor of Drum Corps Planet News.